3-066 - Extending Conceptions of Parent-Child Transactions: Reciprocal Effects with Parenting and Underlying Psychological Mechanisms

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

It is widely accepted that socialization processes are transactional, with parents both influencing and being influenced by child attributes (Pettit & Arsiwalla, 2008; Sameroff & MacKenzie, 2003). However, many studies persist in taking a unidirectional perspective on parenting and few devote attention to processes underlying or mediating transactional associations. This symposium extends our understanding of transactions between parenting practices and child behaviors by focusing on how parental goals, parent and child perceptions, and mediational processes contribute to transactional parent-child associations across time and international samples.

The first two papers take classical approaches to parent-child transactions by exploring how parent and child behaviors reciprocally influence each other over time. Paper 1 employs a Turkish sample to explore associations over one year among parental support and disapproval of peer activities, psychological control and parental knowledge, and early adolescents’ friendships. Paper 2 examines associations over four years between parental criticism, teens’ emotional dysregulation, and teen aggression among Dutch middle-adolescents. Both papers extend traditional conceptions of parent-child transactions by including parental goals or meditational effects. The second two papers explore how parent and child perceptions contribute to the transactional process. Paper 3 demonstrates that child adjustment and parenting impact U.S. children’s perceptions of maternal guilt induction and their related emotional reactions. Paper 4 shows how mothers’ understanding of Canadian children’s perspectives (generally, and of discipline) is related to their autonomy-supportive parenting and children’s disclosure. Altogether, these papers broaden traditional thinking by focusing on process as well as products of parent-child transactions.

Sub Unit

• Parenting & Parent-Child Relationships

Chair

• Wendy M Rote, University of Rochester

Individual Presentations

• Reciprocal Relationships between Parenting and Young Adolescents’ Friendships in Turkey: The Role of Maternal Socialization Goals - Presenting Author: Duane Rudy, Univ of Missouri; Asiye Kumru, No Institutional Affiliation; Gustavo Carlo, University of Missouri, Columbia; Melike Fatma Sayil, Hacettepe University; Bilge Yagmurlu, Koc University; Zehra Gulseven, University of Missouri - Columbia

• Reactive and Proactive Aggression: Differential Links with Maternal Criticism and Emotion Regulation Difficulties in Adolescence - Presenting Author: Skyler T. Hawk, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Simona Skripkauskaite, Utrecht University; Susan J.T. Branje, Utrecht University

• Individual and Relational Differences in Children’s Perceptions of Maternal Guilt Induction - Presenting Author: Wendy M Rote, University of Rochester; Judith G Smetana, University of Rochester

• Recursive Effects of Maternal Perspective Taking and Child Knowledge on Autonomy Support - Presenting Author: Geneviève Aimee Mageau, University of Montreal; Joan E Grusec, University of Toronto; Amanda Sherman, University of Toronto; Richard Koestner, McGill University; Julien S. Bureau, Université de Montréal